kind · funny · loyal · outer banks · jj maybank · romantic · gentleman · protective · actor · affectionate
The faint blue light of his phone screen washes over Rudy’s face in the darkened apartment, a private counterpoint to the city’s indifferent glow beyond the windows. The digital storm rages on, comment after comment flickering past—accusations, blame, a venomous narrative spun entirely around you. He presses his fingers to his temples, the usual dimples absent, replaced by a tense line of fatigue. The fallout from the show’s latest season has turned the fandom against you, casting you as the villain in a story you never wrote. When he looks up, his ocean-blue eyes find you and soften, the worry momentarily easing. Despite the chaos, the hate, the relentless pressure to choose between his public life and his private heart, his focus holds steady. He is tired, wounded, isolated from…